http://momentscount.com The Moments Count Journal is a weekly Internet magazine bringing worldwide change through collaboration. Mon, 06 Feb 2012 06:00:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Moments Count is committed to the concept that every person has a purpose and a power to change the world. We work to create worldwide conversation. This diverse engagement energizes ideas and facilitates opportunities to take action to improve the world we all share. Visit us at http://MomentsCount.com/and tell us how you or someone you know is changing the world. The Moments Count Journal no The Moments Count Journal contactmc@momentscount.com contactmc@momentscount.com (The Moments Count Journal) Moments Count You Have Power and Purpose In Your World. moments count, brooke leigh sheldon, valli keller, positive change, create change, inspire http://momentscount.com/wp-content/uploads/powerpress/MCLogo_Tag2.jpg http://momentscount.com/topics/authors/national-geographic/ http://momentscount.com/archives/9570/ http://momentscount.com/archives/9570/#comments Tue, 13 Dec 2011 06:00:02 +0000 National Geographic http://momentscount.com/?p=9570 http://momentscount.com/archives/9570/feed/ 0 http://momentscount.com/archives/9238/ http://momentscount.com/archives/9238/#comments Fri, 04 Nov 2011 05:00:30 +0000 National Geographic http://momentscount.com/?p=9238 http://momentscount.com/archives/9238/feed/ 0 http://momentscount.com/archives/8347/ http://momentscount.com/archives/8347/#comments Thu, 07 Jul 2011 05:04:31 +0000 National Geographic http://momentscount.com/?p=8347
National Geographic brings us this report from the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics. Please share this story!]]> http://momentscount.com/archives/8347/feed/ 0 http://momentscount.com/archives/8155/ http://momentscount.com/archives/8155/#comments Thu, 16 Jun 2011 05:04:05 +0000 National Geographic http://momentscount.com/?p=8155
Last week we ran the 20 most extreme, hair-raising, legendary adventures on the planet, daunting even for the world's elite athletes. If you've got the mettle, add these to your lifetime to-do list. Not quite ready? Check out this list of the 20 next-best adventures—and start planning. Explore your own adventures with National Geographic Expeditions.Please [...]]]> http://momentscount.com/archives/8155/feed/ 1 http://momentscount.com/archives/8057/ http://momentscount.com/archives/8057/#comments Thu, 09 Jun 2011 05:03:28 +0000 National Geographic http://momentscount.com/?p=8057
Here they are. The 20 most extreme, hair-raising, legendary adventures on the planet, daunting even for the world's elite athletes. If you've got the mettle, add these to your lifetime to-do list. Not quite ready? Check out the 20 next-best adventures—and start planning. —By Kate Siber for National Geographic Please share this story!]]> http://momentscount.com/archives/8057/feed/ 0 http://momentscount.com/archives/7897/ http://momentscount.com/archives/7897/#comments Thu, 02 Jun 2011 05:02:00 +0000 National Geographic http://momentscount.com/?p=7897
By Cynthia Gorney for National Geographic Page 1 :: Because the wedding was illegal and a secret, except to the invited guests, and because marriage rites in Rajasthan are often conducted late at night, it was well into the afternoon before the three girl brides in this dry farm settlement in the north of India [...]]]> http://momentscount.com/archives/7897/feed/ 0 http://momentscount.com/archives/6214/ http://momentscount.com/archives/6214/#comments Thu, 03 Mar 2011 06:06:01 +0000 National Geographic http://momentscount.com/?p=6214
Writing in Cosmopolitan in 1911—then a general-interest magazine— U.S. inventor, Thomas Edison, predicted what the future would bring. He was spot on about some things, such as speedy airplanes, but "absolutely wrong" on others, said Paul Israel, director and general editor of the Thomas A. Edison Papers Project at Rutgers University in New Jersey.  Here [...]]]> http://momentscount.com/archives/6214/feed/ 26 http://momentscount.com/archives/5969/ http://momentscount.com/archives/5969/#comments Thu, 17 Feb 2011 06:03:59 +0000 National Geographic http://momentscount.com/?p=5969 http://momentscount.com/archives/5969/feed/ 26 http://momentscount.com/archives/5387/ http://momentscount.com/archives/5387/#comments Wed, 19 Jan 2011 04:25:45 +0000 National Geographic http://momentscount.com/?p=5387
The alien planet Gliese 581g set off a firestorm of controversy in 2010 when astronomers loudly declared it to be the first truly habitable planet found outside our solar system. One of several planets known to orbit the red dwarf star Gliese 581, the headline-grabbing world was described by one researcher as being “just the [...]]]> http://momentscount.com/archives/5387/feed/ 0 http://momentscount.com/archives/5071/ http://momentscount.com/archives/5071/#comments Thu, 09 Dec 2010 06:00:14 +0000 National Geographic http://momentscount.com/?p=5071
From The National Geographic Hard-hit by a months-long drought, a waterway within the Amazon Basin trickles to a halt in Manaus, Brazil (see map), on November 19, 2010. The Negro River (right), a major tributary of the Amazon River, dropped to a depth of about 46 feet (14 meters), the lowest point since record-keeping began [...]]]> http://momentscount.com/archives/5071/feed/ 0 http://momentscount.com/archives/4612/ http://momentscount.com/archives/4612/#comments Thu, 11 Nov 2010 08:58:51 +0000 National Geographic http://momentscount.com/?p=4612
From David Braun of National Geographic Do we need to double our conservation efforts? One fifth of the world's vertebrates--mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles and fishes--is threatened with extinction, according to a worldwide assessment by thousands of scientists. But had it not been for conservation measures, they say, the number of species on the threatened list [...]]]> http://momentscount.com/archives/4612/feed/ 0 http://momentscount.com/archives/3985/ http://momentscount.com/archives/3985/#comments Thu, 21 Oct 2010 08:55:57 +0000 National Geographic http://momentscount.com/?p=3985
From National Geographic Why have big cats evolved such beautiful and intriguing variation in their colors and markings? British scientists have worked out some answers. Detailed patterning of the spots or stripes of big cats evolved for camouflage, researchers at the University of Bristol, UK, said today. Analysis of the evolutionary history of the patterns [...]]]> http://momentscount.com/archives/3985/feed/ 0 http://momentscount.com/archives/3757/ http://momentscount.com/archives/3757/#comments Thu, 14 Oct 2010 04:07:41 +0000 Valerie C Clark http://momentscount.com/?p=3757 http://momentscount.com/archives/3757/feed/ 0 http://momentscount.com/archives/3665/ http://momentscount.com/archives/3665/#comments Wed, 06 Oct 2010 21:31:26 +0000 National Geographic http://momentscount.com/?p=3665
John Roach for National Geographic News Astronomers studying a nearby star say they've found the first potentially habitable planet, likely a rocky place with an atmosphere, temperate regions, and crucially, liquid water, considered vital for life as we know it. Other extrasolar planets have been called Earthlike, but, astronomer Paul Butler assured, "this is really [...]]]> http://momentscount.com/archives/3665/feed/ 0 http://momentscount.com/archives/3547/ http://momentscount.com/archives/3547/#comments Wed, 29 Sep 2010 22:21:00 +0000 National Geographic http://momentscount.com/?p=3547
Oregano Moves Cows Toward Climate Neutral From Rachel Kaufman for National Geographic A dash of oregano does more than make pizza taste delicious: it also can reduce the amount of methane in cow burps, new research shows. Scientists have been trying to decrease methane from livestock for years; methane is over 20 times more potent [...]]]> http://momentscount.com/archives/3547/feed/ 0 http://momentscount.com/archives/3391/ http://momentscount.com/archives/3391/#comments Wed, 22 Sep 2010 23:30:20 +0000 National Geographic http://momentscount.com/?p=3391
By Ford Cochran of National Geographic National Geographic hosted a live recording of National Public Radio's Talk of the Nation at our Washington, D.C. headquarters yesterday. During the program's first hour, host Neal Conan spoke with journalist Joel Bourne (author of National Geographic magazine's October 2010 cover story on the Deepwater Horizon disaster), NPR science [...]]]> http://momentscount.com/archives/3391/feed/ 0 http://momentscount.com/archives/3245/ http://momentscount.com/archives/3245/#comments Thu, 16 Sep 2010 02:54:58 +0000 National Geographic http://momentscount.com/?p=3245
By Christine Dell'Amore National Geographic News Published September 9, 2010 Cockroaches may make your skin crawl, but the insects, or, to be exact, their brains, could one day save your life. That's because the central nervous systems of American cockroaches produce natural antibiotics that can kill off bacteria often deadly to humans, such as methicillin-resistant [...]]]> http://momentscount.com/archives/3245/feed/ 0 http://momentscount.com/archives/3125/ http://momentscount.com/archives/3125/#comments Sun, 05 Sep 2010 17:40:04 +0000 National Geographic http://momentscount.com/?p=3125
We're flesh and blood, resigned to our three score and ten, but rivers are the lifeblood of the earth, created long before us, to remain long after we're gone. If there's only one thing I could share with the 30 million people who depend upon the Colorado River, it's this: If we have the power to wrest a river from the Delta, we also have the responsibility to restore it. As for what I got out of the 1,450 mile trip, I have let go of my mother. But losing our river is a death I cannot abide.]]> http://momentscount.com/archives/3125/feed/ 0 http://momentscount.com/archives/2817/ http://momentscount.com/archives/2817/#comments Mon, 09 Aug 2010 03:04:17 +0000 National Geographic http://momentscount.com/?p=2817
By Molly Loomis From National Geographic News Editor David Braun's Eye on the World Long regarded as a haven for migratory birds from around the world, the Arctic is increasingly playing host to a growing list of southern species never before seen in the North's colder climes. On a recent expedition to the National Petroleum [...]]]> http://momentscount.com/archives/2817/feed/ 0 http://momentscount.com/archives/2410/ http://momentscount.com/archives/2410/#comments Tue, 25 May 2010 20:21:04 +0000 Brooke Leigh Sheldon http://momentscount.com/?p=2410
Valerie C. Clark, aka the Frog Caller, grew up roaming the State Parks that surrounded her home in the suburbs of Maryland, USA. It was here where she first plunged her hand into ponds capturing her tadpoles. And when one of these tadpoles grew up, back in the 1990's, Valerie entered her little contender in [...]]]> http://momentscount.com/archives/2410/feed/ 3